Wallis

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1977 at #5,123
Given to boys 52.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1940 · 26 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
625
since 1911

Wallis over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #1,255, 1937peak #1,311, 1940girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024#8,94611
2023#10,3129
2022#5,98420
2021#9,56210
2020#7,96913
2019#13,7996
2018#8,61712
2017#11,6158
2016#11,7818
2015#8,00814
2014#11,9318
2013#13,1507
2012#13,4837
2011
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2008
2007
2006
2005#14,5026
2004#16,0995
2003
2002
2001#12,0567
2000#11,8017
1999#12,6886
1998#10,1228
1997#8,33410
1996
1995#13,3865
1994#10,5697
1993#8,7199
1992
1991#9,3368
1990#7,88010
1989#12,3625
1988#11,7985
1987
1986#8,5237
1985#8,3187
1984
1983#10,2755
1982#5,53412
1981#10,4115
1980#9,0956
1979
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1977#5,1236
1976
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1972#4,4416
1971#4,9075
1970
1969#4,4045
1968#3,3657
1967
1966#3,5376
1965
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1963#3,0448
1962#2,67310
1961#5,3097#3,6526
1960
1959
1958#5,4086#3,0338
1957#4,9187#3,0248
1956#4,4678#2,9698
1955#5,2086#2,7649
1954#3,4526
1953#3,26912#2,18613
1952#3,04013#3,0957
1951#3,10612#2,36711
1950#3,23511#2,43810
1949#2,45310
1948#3,5939#2,44310
1947#2,63715#2,35611
1946#3,4309#2,9197
1945#2,33914#2,00912
1944#2,09617#1,89014
1943#2,69512#2,5639
1942#1,91720#2,7128
1941#1,81020#2,08312
1940#1,68222#1,31126
1939#1,79719#2,05012
1938#2,22514#1,55919
1937#1,25533#1,68817
1936#3,7016#1,41722
1935#2,5299
1934#1,78316
1933
1932#2,8498
1931#2,47110
1930#1,88916
1929#1,84817
1928#2,16214
1927#2,52311
1926#2,43612
1925#1,74520
1924#2,47312
1923#2,77210
1922#2,34713
1921#2,05916
1920#1,96617
1919#1,97316
1918#1,82718
1917#2,09114
1916#2,9268
1915#2,07013
1914#1,60815
1913#2,4966
1912
1911#1,5376
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First appearance
1911

The first year at least five boys were named Wallis! It came in at #1,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1912, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Wallis
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1977
Rise & fade · boys
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1911
  • Peaked 1940 at #1,311 (26 births)
  • Births halved by 1941, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 37,662
  • Highest: 1 in 37,662 boys born in 1911 were named Wallis (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 273,870 boys born in 1977 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,311 in 1940, was only 1 in 44,584 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 22.7% of all boys named Wallis (142) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1980
  • Mostly boys until 1979, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s96#1,537 (1911)#2,066
1920s142#1,745 (1925)#2,233
1930s129#1,417 (1936)#2,026
1940s119#1,311 (1940)#2,274
1950s80#2,186 (1953)#2,814
1960s42#2,673 (1962)#3,446
1970s17#4,441 (1972)#4,824

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wallis in 1920

boys
#1,966
17 births · 1 in 62,609 boys

Top boys' names in 1920

  1. #1John56,913
  2. #2William50,146
  3. #3Robert48,679
  4. #4James47,908
  5. #5Charles28,309
  6. #6George26,891
  7. #7Joseph25,587
  8. #8Edward20,097
  9. #9Frank16,430
  10. #10Richard15,010
  11. #1,966Wallis17
More about 1920

boys

1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 62,609 of them was named Wallis, which outranked 60.6% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wallis
  1. #1,885Woodard18
  2. #1,885Yasuo18
  3. #1,885Zoltan18
  4. #1,966Wallis17
  5. #1,966Alwyn17
  6. #1,966Amador17
  7. #1,966Amedeo17
  8. #2,052Abie16
  9. #2,052Albion16
  10. #2,052Alto16

Tied with 85 names at #1,966; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. 960Harding#1,351#391
  2. 607Cameron#1,351#744
  3. 566Hardin#1,531#965
  4. 392Laurel#1,321#929
  5. 368Terrence#1,297#929
Fallers
  1. 789Pershing#593#1,382
  2. 580Woodroe#877#1,457
  3. 385Quinten#867#1,252
  4. 383Orvel#890#1,273
  5. 373Rexford#927#1,300

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1920